Residents-only parking
Adrian Muscat Inglott's column feature continues to claim that resident parking arrangements taken up by some local councils are illegal, based on a judge's sentence arguing that residents do not own their street. Apparently this judge forgot that...
Adrian Muscat Inglott's column feature continues to claim that resident parking arrangements taken up by some local councils are illegal, based on a judge's sentence arguing that residents do not own their street. Apparently this judge forgot that garage owners are permitted by law to actually own the street in front of their garage.
Furthermore, a judge's sentence does not constitute a new law and, to my knowledge, there is as yet no Maltese law prohibiting residents-only parking schemes.
What Valletta council (and others) have instituted, is the way forward to control traffic in our town and village cores - when shall we see Valletta's Palace Square, for example, converted back from an ugly car park into our capital's main square?
Is it possible that the thousands of our compatriots visiting European cities and towns have not noticed how non-resident vehicles are being prevented from street parking? Central London, for example, has had residents-only parking for around 20 years - and residents pay an annual fee for their parking permit. Others are towed away.